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Total War: Shogun 2
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Creative Assembly |
macOS (OS X) |
Feral Interactive |
Linux |
Feral Interactive |
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Sega |
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Warscape |
Windows |
March 15, 2011 |
macOS (OS X) |
July 31, 2014 |
Linux |
May 23, 2017 |
Metacritic |
90 |
IGDB |
88 |
Monetization |
One-time game purchase, DLC |
Microtransactions |
None |
Modes |
Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing |
Real-time, Turn-based |
Perspectives |
Bird's-eye view, Free-roaming camera |
Controls |
Menu-based, Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres |
RTS, TBS |
Themes |
Japan, Historical |
Series |
Total War |
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General information
- Official forums
- Official support page
- Total War Center - A large fan site for the series with an active modding community
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
- All Windows and Linux versions require Steam DRM.
Version differences
- The Mac App Store version is a complete edition with all DLC but does not include multiplayer.[1]
DLC and expansion packs
Name |
Notes |
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Otomo Clan Pack |
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Saints and Heroes Unit Pack |
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Dragon War Battle Pack |
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The Ikko Ikki Clan Pack |
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Sengoku Jidai Unit Pack |
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Rise of the Samurai Campaign |
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The Hattori Clan Pack |
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Blood Pack |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro videos
Remove intro videos[citation needed]
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- Download the Package File Manager and extract it anywhere.
- Open
PackFileManager.exe and select Cancel on the Please point to location of TWH, ATW and R2TW prompts.
- On the Please point to location of STW prompt select the game's main installation folder. Select Cancel for NTW and ETW.
- Select Yes on the First Start window which says Looking for updated schema files for decoding DB files.
- Under Game, check if STW is selected.
- Under Options, select CA Packs Are Read Only, then choose I'm not afraid, coward!
- Under File, Open CA pack, select
movies.pack
- Double Click on
movies.pack and movies in order to expand the list.
- Click on a file to select it, then push Delete once to erase it. Delete the following files.
intel_logo_english.bik
intro.bik
sega_logo_sting_hd.bik
4. Push Ctrl+S in order to save, then wait for the Package File Manager to unfreeze.
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Remove splash screen[citation needed]
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- Download the Package File Manager and extract it anywhere.
- Open
PackFileManager.exe and select Cancel on the Please point to location of TWH, ATW and R2TW prompts.
- On the Please point to location of STW prompt select the game's main installation folder. Select Cancel for NTW and ETW.
- Select Yes on the First Start window which says Looking for updated schema files for decoding DB files.
- Under Game, check if STW is selected.
- Under Options, select CA Packs Are Read Only, then choose I'm not afraid, coward!
- Under File, Open CA pack, select
boot.pack
- Double Click on
boot.pack and navigate to ui\frontend ui\loadingscreen
- Select
legal.dds , then push Delete once to erase it.
- Push Ctrl+S in order to save, then wait for the Package File Manager to unfreeze.
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Reset the Pack File Manager settings if something isn't working correctly[citation needed]
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- Push ⊞ Win+R and type
%LOCALAPPDATA% then push OK.
- Find the PackFileManager folder and delete it.
- Delete the older Pack File Manager folder that was last downloaded and extracted anywhere.
- Download the latest version of the Pack File Manager and extract it anywhere.
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System |
Location |
Windows |
%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts\*.txt |
macOS (OS X) |
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/Total War SHOGUN 2/AppData/scripts/ |
Linux |
$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Total War SHOGUN 2/ |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System |
Location |
Windows |
%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\ |
macOS (OS X) |
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Linux |
$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/SaveData |
Video
- Set the Shader Model setting to Shader Model 5 and check the Soft Shadows setting while in the DX11 mode to use high quality shadows.
- Switch to the DX9 mode if loading takes too long. If the shadows are blocky uncheck the Soft Shadows setting. Shadows on this mode are worse than in the DX11 setting.
Setting Up[citation needed]
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- Go to the configuration file(s) location.
- Open
preferences.script.txt .
- Find the following lines, and set them to these values.
gfx_fullscreen false;
fix_res false;
fix_window_pos false;
3. Launch the game and wait for the main menu to load, then Alt+Tab ↹ to the Desktop.
4. Use the Fullscreen Toggle Script.
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Input
Audio
Audio feature |
State |
Notes |
Separate volume controls |
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Surround sound |
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Dolby Surround, SRS Circle Surround, 4.0, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 are supported. 8.1 Discrete lower the volume considerably, unknown if it was intentional or a bug. |
Subtitles |
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Closed captions |
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Mute on focus lost |
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Royalty free audio |
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Localizations
Language |
UI |
Audio |
Sub |
Notes |
English |
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Czech |
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French |
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German |
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Italian |
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Japanese |
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Japanese release. |
Polish |
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Russian |
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Spanish |
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Network
- Multiplayer is not cross-platform.[2]
- The Mac App Store version does not include multiplayer.[1]
Multiplayer types
VR support
Issues fixed
Random Stop Working Error
- No proper fix known yet.
Verify Your Game Cache[citation needed]
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- Find Total War: Shogun 2 in your Steam Library
- Right-click the game name
- Select
Properties
- Go to the
Local Files tab
- Select
Verify Integrity of Game Cache...
- This may take a while, just wait for it to finish
- Once it's done press
OK
- Launch the game
Notes
- If this doesn't fix the problem, you may need to re-install the game
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Uncheck Tessellation in Graphics Options[citation needed]
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Shogun 2 not starting
- If the game doesn't start, try deleting
preferences.script.txt
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Delete preferences.script.txt[citation needed]
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- Go to
%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts
- Delete
preferences.script.txt
- Run the game again.
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Mouse Cursor Unrestricted
- The game does not restrict the mouse cursor, meaning that on multi-monitor configurations instead of moving the camera, the mouse will go onto the other screen, effectively crippling the ability to effectively move the camera in that direction.
"Cursor Lock" fix[citation needed]
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- Download Cursor Lock
- Open Cursor Lock Setup.
- Select "Open Program" and then find the path to the Steam executable (usually
%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Steam\Steam.exe )
- Select "Open Program Args" and put in -applaunch 34330.
- Select "Lock Program" and then find the path to the game's main executable in the installation folder.
- Click the "Create Shortcut" button to create a permanent shortcut to the game with Cursor Lock.
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Extreme Loading Time
- Shogun 2 suffers from rather ridiculous loading times (the first loading splash screen can take over 5 minutes to load. However, these can be partly shortened by switching from DirectX 11 to DirectX 9.
- This will restrict the game to use Shader Model 3 and MLAA among other things.
Freezing on 32-bit systems (Windows)
- The game freezes because Windows cannot allocate enough memory on x86 systems.
Prepare the OS to be able to use beyond 2GB address space with a userva of 2.5GB[citation needed]
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- Open Start Menu
- Type:
cmd or Command Prompt
- Right click on the Command Prompt program and select
Run as Administrator
- In the Command Prompt screen, enter
bcdedit /set increaseuserva 2500
- Wait for the confirmation message.
- Reboot the computer.
- Launch the game.
Notes
- To undo this change, follow the same instructions but use the
bcdedit /deletevalue increaseuserva command
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Incorrect VRAM size detection for modern video cards (Windows)
- The game is limited by its 32-bit nature and will fail to correctly detect the available VRAM size on cards with more than 4 GB of memory.
Override available video memory size[citation needed]
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- Go to
%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Shogun2\scripts
- Open
preferences.script.txt
- Modify
gfx_video_memory setting and set it to -1 .
- Launch the game and confirm the changes: in Settings, at the bottom, it should indicate
Video Memory (MB): 4095
Notes
- This will effectively set the available VRAM size to 4GB - 1 byte.
- To undo this change, follow the same instructions but use the value
0 for auto-detection.
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Campaign camera no longer controllable
- Mouse and keyboard camera controls no longer function.
EditSF CAMPAIGN_CAMERA_MANAGER
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- Download EditSF
- Open affected savegame
- Go to COMPRESSED_DATA > CAMPAIGN ENV > CAMPAIGN_CAMERA_MANAGER
- Change
System.UInt32 from 0 to 1
- Save and reload the savegame from Shotgun 2.
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Reload unaffected earlier save game
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Other information
API
Technical specs |
Supported |
Notes |
Direct3D |
9.0c, 11 |
MSAA is only supported in DX11 mode |
Metal support |
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Added in the 64-bit update.[4] |
Shader Model support |
3, 4, 4.1, 5 |
SM 4+ is only available in DX11 mode. SM 3 is present in both Low and High modes. |
Executable |
32-bit |
64-bit |
Notes |
Windows |
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macOS (OS X) | |
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Linux | |
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System requirements
Windows |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
XP |
Vista, 7 |
Processor (CPU) |
2 GHz Dual Core or 2.6 GHz Single Core
| Intel Core i5-2xxx series AMD Phenom II X4 series |
System memory (RAM) |
1 GB (XP) 2 GB (Vista, 7) |
2 GB (XP) 4 GB (Vista, 7) |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
20 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
Nvidia GeForce GT 240 ATI Radeon HD 5000 series DirectX 11 compatible |
Other |
1024 x 768 screen resolution |
1280 x 1024 screen resolution |
macOS (OS X) |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
10.9.5 |
10.10.3 |
Processor (CPU) |
1.8 GHz
| 2.4 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB |
8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
22 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
256 MB of VRAM
| 2 GB of VRAM |
- Not supported: ATI Radeon X1000 series, ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, Intel GMA series, Intel HD 3000, Nvidia GeForce 7000/8000 series, Nvidia GeForce 9400 and Nvidia GeForce GTX 300 series.
- Intel HD 4000 requires 8 GB of system memory.
Linux |
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Minimum |
Recommended |
Operating system (OS) |
SteamOS or Ubuntu 16.04 | |
Processor (CPU) |
2 GHz
| 3 GHz |
System memory (RAM) |
4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) |
26 GB | |
Video card (GPU) |
Intel Iris Pro Nvidia GeForce GTX 600 series AMD Radeon HD 6000 series 1 GB of VRAM
| Nvidia GeForce GTX 700 series AMD Radeon R7 series 2 GB of VRAM |
- Nvidia cards require driver version 375.26 or better. AMD and Intel cards require MESA version 17.0.4
References